The translation nonprofit 84000 has relaunched its website with a redesigned platform centered on making the Tibetan Buddhist canon more accessible to a wider range of readers — from first-time explorers to advanced scholars.
At the heart of the new site is its Reading Room: an open-access library of thousands of canonical texts, organized according to traditional categories and searchable by topic. The collection is free and available to anyone, without restriction. A companion Scholar’s Room offers multilingual resources, translation comparisons, and textual variants for academic and research use.
Founded in 2009, “at a historic gathering of fifty scholars, translators, and teachers convened by Khyentse Foundation at Deer Park Institute in India,” 84000 set the goal to translate the entirety of the Tibetan Buddhist canon into English and other modern languages. By now, the organization reports, “more than half of the Kangyur has been published, with over 80 percent translated and awaiting release. Work on the Tengyur — the canon’s vast body of commentaries — is also underway.”
The new platform reflects what executive director Huang Jing Rui describes as a shift in focus: “The challenge today is no longer only how to translate texts but also how to ensure they are meaningfully available across many different languages, levels of familiarity, and modes of learning.”
Visit the relaunched 84000 site.
